언론법제 연구의 최근 동향분석

초록

This study explored the state of media law research through overviewing the related books, research articles, and academic theses produced during the years of 2009 and 2010. It showed that about 9.2% of all the research articles in media and law journals were written about media law. While the articles in <Media and the Law> and <Journal of Information Law> are mostly related to media law, journals about advertising published the least articles about media law. It was found that media researchers frequently applied social scientific methods for the main anaylsis, most law researchers highly depended on the conventional legal research methods. Major research interests in both media and law areas were given to freedom of expression and basic personality rights such as libel, invasion of privacy, and copyrights. Overall, there has still been not much co-work or co-authorship between media scholars and law scholars notwithstanding the recent increase in the number of media law related articles. In academics, among 27 Ph.D. degrees endowed in media law speciality, 21 came from law area, two from media area, four from other area. Interestingly, in master's degree, more people eared master's degree in other area than media area. This showed the interest in media law is getting increased in recent years. The books published during 2009 and 2010 proved that 'copyright' is the most attractive and complicated issue among others in the media law research area. An interesting thing is that two books that deal with ethics in the internet were published in this period. Conclusively, this study suggested just like the result derived from 2008 article by Jae-Jin Lee and Seoung Sun Lee, more and more cooperative research between the media and the law should be made so as to enhance the development of media law research. Especially, the result revealed that unique and representative research method in the media law area needed to be established.

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